KATE. Grandma Gregg? Why, she's no Suffragette. Oh, girls! The very thing! We _will_ take Grandma Gregg! We'll capture her! We'll take her, in chains! SUSAN. Excellent! _You_ will have your chaperone, and I will be rid of the most dangerous Anti-suffra-gette! Seek her and seize her! All. We go! We go! (_exit all, left, except_ PAULINE) (_enter_ GRANDMA GREGG, _right_) GRANDMA. I thought I heard a noise, Pauline. How are the dear girls getting on with their lessons? PAULINE, (_curtseys_) Fine, mam. They're learning new tricks every day. GRANDMA. (_picking up dummy and laying it over chair back_) Very good. But I wouldn't wear a bandeau on my hair if I were you, Pauline. I don't like these ribbons bound around the head of young girls. They make them look like pirates. (PAULINE _starts uneasily_) PAULINE. Pirates, mam? What a notion! GRANDMA. Pirates, or Italian ditch diggers. PAULINE, (_boldly_) Well, mam, let it be pirates, then. Pirate is what I am. (_hesitates_) Grandma Gregg, you've always been good to me, barring the scrubbing and mopping and blacking shoes and stoves. If I was you, mam, I'd pack some clothes, so as to be ready for the sea voyage. GRANDMA. Me? A sea voyage? PAULINE. Yes'm. (_curtseys_) This Susan Jane Jones is not what she seems, mam. I let on, mam, I was of her way of thinking, mam, but I ain't. A husband is good enough woman's rights for me, mam. A nice, quiet, well-behaved husband like that one there is all I want. GRANDMA. I don't understand you. PAULINE. Susan Jane Jones is a Militant Suffragette, mam. GRANDMA. A Militant Suffragette? In this academy? PAULINE. Yes, mam. (_curtseys_) She's here like a snake in the grass, mam, and her and the young ladies is goin' to extinguish all the men. They're all goin' to be pirates, mam, and most bloody minded pirates they be, too. And you, mam, that never did them any harm, they are going to capture and take along with them in chains. For a chaperone, mam. GRANDMA, (_hanging her head_) And is this the reward for my efforts to make good wives of them! (_Enter_ SUSAN _cautiously. She beckons to the girls_.) SUSAN. This way! She's here! (_The girls creep in, knives in their teeth, swaggering like story-book pirates._ SUSAN _folds her arms._) SUSAN. Woman! Your hour has come! GRANDMA. Well, I do declare! SUSAN. These poor maidens you thought to corrupt into housework ways, I have won from you. Here, to-day, the revolution that will sweep the men from the land and sea, begins! We are resolved! ALL. (_shouting_) We are resolved! SUSAN. In these hearts burns nothing but hatred and detestation of man. ALL. (_shouting_) Hatred and detestation. KATE. We don't want to have anything more to do with men. GRACE. We are absolutely through with them. And with boys, too. GRANDMA. Now, my dears-- SUSAN. Enough! Pirates, do your duty! Seize that man! (_two girls seize and bind the dummy_)